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Jessica Morden

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Wednesday 8th May 2024

(1 week, 5 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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I call the shadow Minister.

Jessica Morden Portrait Jessica Morden (Newport East) (Lab)
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No contrition, then, in any of those answers from the Secretary of State, whose party has, by freezing tax thresholds, piled on £960 extra on average to the tax bills of around 400,000 pensioners in Wales. The Prime Minister has now made a totally unfunded £46 billion promise to scrap national insurance. Will the Secretary of State tell us how on earth the Government will pay for that, and will he rule out raising income tax by 8p or scrapping winter fuel payments to do so?

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